Jeremy A. Tor, Esq.

Associate

Overview

Jeremy Tor represents ordinary individuals severely injured or killed by
the wrongful conduct of others. When someone in our community acts irresponsibly
and causes serious harm, they must make it right. Jeremy believes the
civil justice is among the best ways to help right a wrong.

Jeremy handles a variety of cases, including: civil rights, wrongful death,
professional malpractice (including medical malpractice), motor vehicle
crashes, and premises liability. He has significant litigation experience,
from discovery to trial to the court of appeals. Jeremy has argued cases
in state and federal appellate courts, including the Sixth Circuit Court
of Appeals.

A sample of Jeremy’s cases include:

$28 million wrongful death jury verdict in Cincinnati, the highest wrongful
death verdict in Ohio history.

$400,000 jury verdict on behalf of a temp worker whose thumb was amputated
while working on an unguarded machine at a plastics manufacturer. The
case settled before starting the punitive damages phase of trial.

Six-figure settlements on behalf of:

A bicyclist who broke her leg after being struck by a car whose driver
fled the scene.

A wife and husband who were rear-ended at a violent rate of speed by a
careless driver.

A bicyclist who struck a practically invisible wire that a construction
company had strung across a road. After striking the wire, he flew over
the handle-bars and landed headfirst, fracturing multiple vertebrae.

A mall patron who slipped and fell on ice on the sidewalk outside a large
mall, breaking her kneecap. Thirty minutes prior, another patron slipped
and fell on the same patch of ice, yet the mall cops did nothing to fix,
or even warn patrons about the hidden danger. The lawsuit included a claim
for punitive damages.

A worker who suffered debilitating lead poisoning after months of removing
layers of paint because the general contractor violated multiple OSHA
regulations, including the requirement to supply lead-safety protective gear.

$300,000 settlement in a civil right case involving three individuals who
were wrongfully arrested for obstruction of justice.

Race discrimination case on behalf of a large, extended African-American
family that was evicted from a hotel in Florida the first morning of their
weeklong trip, which was their annual family reunion.

Podiatric malpractice case on behalf of a patient who underwent unnecessary
and excessive surgery, resulting in a permanent, disabling injury. The
case settled on the fifth day of trial, right before the defendant-podiatrist
was about to testify.

Medical malpractice case on behalf of a woman who was wrongly diagnosed
with terminal, metastatic cancer because the radiologist mixed up her
records with another patient’s.

His excessive force cases include:

Fatal police shooting. A man was shot twice by a police officer in the
back while running away and pulling up his pants, which were below his
bare buttocks. The man died at the scene.

In-custody death. A jail inmate experiencing a medical episode was handcuffed
in a prone (face down) position while 8 corrections officers surrounded
him and several applied pressure to his legs, back, shoulders, and neck
until he suffocated to death.

Fatal police shooting. A young man called 911 because his apartment was
being burglarized but was shot dead by the very police he had called for help.

Jeremy is privileged to represent U.S. soldiers and Gold Star families
in a lawsuit against some of the world’s most powerful banks. The
lawsuit, brought by a team of top-flight trial lawyers and firms, seeks
to hold the banks accountable under the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Justice
Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act for providing material support (to the
tune of hundreds of billions of dollars) to Iran and its de facto terrorism
arm, Hezbollah, who collectively waged a campaign of terrorism in Iraq
against Coalition forces beginning in 2003.

Jeremy is part of the team litigating claims against the companies who
manufacture and distribute opiates-and who helped spawn the opioid epidemic-in
the nationwide opiate Multidistrict Litigation (MDL), which is pending
in federal court in the Northern District of Ohio.

Before joining the Spangenberg firm, Jeremy served as a federal law clerk.
He received his law degree in 2011 from the University of Virginia. Upon
graduation, he was awarded the Eppa Hunton IV Memorial Book Award, which
is given by the faculty to one graduating student “who has demonstrated
unusual aptitude in litigation courses and shown a keen awareness and
understanding of the lawyer’s ethical and professional responsibility.”

Before law school, Jeremy was a Teach For America corps member in Baltimore,
where he taught Spanish to high school students at a public school in
west Baltimore and earned a Master’s in teaching from Johns Hopkins
University.

Jeremy went to college on a full-ride at the University of Arizona, obtaining
a dual Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish, graduating
with Honors,
summa cum laude, and receiving the Outstanding Senior Award as the top Political Science
graduate. Jeremy was President and Captain of his college mock trial team,
participating in numerous tournaments across the country and earning nearly
a dozen Outstanding Attorney awards.

Education

2011: University of Virginia School of Law J.D.

Virginia Journal of International Law, Senior Editor

Eppa Hunton IV Memorial Book Award (awarded by faculty to one graduating
student “who has demonstrated unusual aptitude in litigation courses
and shown a keen awareness and understanding of the lawyer’s ethical
and professional responsibility”)

Housing Law Clinic (representing low-income tenants in court)

2010: Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law

Study Abroad

2008: Johns Hopkins University, Graduate School of Education, M.A.

Major: Teaching

2006: University of Arizona, B.A.

Major: Political Science & Spanish

Honors: Summa Cum Laude

Full-ride Scholarship

Outstanding Senior Award (chosen by Political Science faculty as top graduate)

President and Captain of Mock Trial; awarded nearly a dozen “Outstanding
Attorney” awards

Awards & Honors

Case Results

Jeremy is a “trailing spouse,” brought to Cleveland courtesy
of his wife, Shira, who grew up in Beachwood and is now an orthodontist
and co-owner of Weiss & Tor Orthodontics. Jeremy and Shira are proud
and happy parents of two young girls.

Jeremy grew up in Tucson, Arizona. After finishing college, he began the
journey that took him to Baltimore (to teach), Virginia (to law school),
New York (to work), Israel (to study abroad), and to Latin America, including
Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Paraguay, where he directed
a development program focused on community-based environmental and health
projects. Jeremy is glad the journey has come to an end and that he and
his family can finally plant their roots in Cleveland.

In his free time, Jeremy enjoys playing the piano and racquetball and spending
time with family.

Beyond work and family, Jeremy stays involved in the community through
the Jewish Community Center and Fairmount Temple, where Jeremy and his
family are congregants, as well as through the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL). In 2017, he was selected to participate in the ADL Glass Leadership
Institute, and in 2018, he was appointed Co-Chair of the Civil Rights
Committee for the local region of the ADL.

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